Woman in bid to block nude pictures

NAKED pictures of a Centurion woman, which her now former lover and his girlfriend allegedly threatened to distribute “for all to see”, were the subject of an urgent court application this week.

The woman has asked for an interdict preventing the couple from putting these pictures in the public domain.

She also asked the North Gauteng High Court to order the couple to delete the pictures from the phone of her former lover.

The parties are not identified to spare the applicant, referred to as C, any further embarrassment.

The pictures, some depicting her naked and others in lingerie, were sent by the scorned girlfriend to another former boyfriend of C and a mutual friend of theirs.

C said in court papers she now urgently wanted to prevent the rest of the world from seeing them.

Judge Neil Tuchten removed the matter from the roll as the parties were not ready to go ahead. The reason was not clear, but it means that it can again serve before court at a later stage.

C, meanwhile, stated in court papers that she was being blackmailed by the scorned girlfriend, who said that she would distribute the pictures “to everyone in Centurion, Pretoria and Johannesburg” if C did not bring R10 000 in cash to her home before a certain date.

This money, the girlfriend said, was to refund her boyfriend who paid the airfare for a “dirty weekend” away with C, as well as for two nights in a Pretoria hotel, where the two met up.

C said she was shocked when she received this message, as she was under the impression that the former lover and his girlfriend had broken up.

If she knew this was not the case, she would have never agreed to have a relationship with him.

She and her former lover had a relationship years ago, but things ended when he met his present girlfriend.

But during September this year, they met up again after he told her he had ended his relationship with his present girlfriend.

He invited her to Cape Town a few days later and paid her airfare. “He assured me his relationship was over and that he was only sorting out a few things as they lived together.”

At the end of October, he again said he was taking her away for the weekend, but later said he could not wait so long and that they had to meet at a hotel in Centurion. The lover then said he could not go away for the weekend as he had matters to deal with at the SA Revenue Services. They instead spend another night in the hotel.

C stated that meanwhile, he started sending her explicit pictures of himself. As she had known him for a while and trusted him, she did the same. This included a picture of her dressed in a T-shirt and G-string. He then sent her a naked picture of himself. She in return went for a lingerie photo shoot and send him the pictures. She eventually sent him a naked picture of herself.

C said she had no choice but to turn to the court for help.